 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 466 pages
...For cares cause kings full oft their sleep to spill, Where weary shepherds lie and snort their fill: Ah then, ah then. If country loves such sweet desires...do gain. What lady would not love a shepherd swain ? Thus with his wife he spends the year, as blithe As doth the king at every tide or sith; And blither... | |
 | William Ernest Henley - English poetry - 1897 - 438 pages
...For cares cause kings full oft their sleep to spill, Where weary shepherds lie and snort their fill : Ah then ! ah then ! If country loves such sweet desires...do gain, What lady would not love a shepherd swain ? Thus with his wife he spends the year, as blithe As doth the king at every tide or sithe, And blither... | |
 | John Dennis - 1898 - 250 pages
...too ; For kings have wars and broils to take in hand, Where shepherds laugh and love upon the land : Ah then, ah then, If country loves such sweet desires...do gain, What lady would not love a shepherd swain ? SONNET E. SPENSER ONE day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away... | |
 | Edward Arber - English poetry - 1899 - 336 pages
...blither too ! For Kings have often fears, when they do sup; Where Shepherds dread no poison in their cup! Ah ! then, Ah ! then, If Country Loves such sweet...do gain, What Lady would not love a Shepherd Swain! . . Upon his couch of straw, he sleeps as sound As doth the King upon his bed of down! More sounder... | |
 | Hugo Gilbert - 1899 - 90 pages
...„The Shepherd's Wife's Song" in Greene's Mourning Garment. [SR 2. Nov. 151)0; ed. Dyce pag. 305 a] : „For kings have cares that wait upon a crown And cares can make the sweetest love to frown. For kings bethink them what the state require, AVhere shepherds careless carol by the fire. For kings... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - English drama - 1900 - 584 pages
...praises the pleasures of a pastoral life in a series of graceful stanzas : Ah, what is love ? It is a pretty thing, As sweet unto a shepherd as a king...then, ah then, If country loves such sweet desires do gam, What lady would not love a shepherd swain ? His flocks are folded, he comes home at night, As... | |
 | Charles Frederick Johnson - American literature - 1900 - 566 pages
...the dramatist who slandered Shakespeare : — THE SONG OF THE SHEPHERDESS Ah 1 what is love ! it is a pretty thing As sweet unto a shepherd as a king,...cares that wait upon a crown, And cares can make the smoothest brow to frown : Ah then, ah then, If country loves such sweet desires gain, What lady would... | |
 | Charles Frederick Johnson - American literature - 1900 - 564 pages
...And sweeter too : For kings have cares that wait upon a crown, And cares can make the smoothest brow to frown : Ah then, ah then, If country loves such sweet desires gain, What lady would not love a shepherd swain? His flocks are folded, he comes home at night As merry... | |
 | E. J. Mathew - English literature - 1901 - 556 pages
...merrier too, For kings bethink them what the state require, Where shepherds careless carol by the fire : Ah then, ah then, If country loves such sweet desires...do gain, What lady would not love a shepherd swain ? " He kisseth first, then sits as blithe to eat His cream and curds, as doth the king his meat ; And... | |
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Ah, what is love? It is a pretty thing, As sweet unto a shepherd as a king — And sweeter too, For kings have cares that wait upon a crown, And cares can make the sweetest love to frown. 
